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2015-07-12

Whistle blower reveals secret U.S. program to recruit, train, and provide visas to ‘terrorists’

Vatic Note: Needless to say, I have had trouble getting this blog up and I have also had trouble posting anything lately. I suspect this is why along with another one that I have tried to put up. I believe the day is coming when Vatic Project will be gone. Until then, we will try to do the best we can.

IF YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW how sausages are made, don’t start reading Visas forAl Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the Worldby Michael Springmann. The sausages in this case: the string of
too-easily-swallowed accounts of bloody events in the “global war on
terror,” served up daily with relish by the mainstream media. In reality
these sausages are filled with tainted meat that’s making everyone
sick.

Springmann is a brave whistle blower living in Washington, D.C. He’s
written an accessible book, safe to digest, highlighting details of the
corruption of the American Empire (and its accomplices, including
Canada) as he experienced them from the inside during his years with the
U.S. State Department.

While he served as a visa officer in the U.S. consulate in Jeddah,
Saudi Arabia, for instance, he was obliged under threat of dismissal to
issue visas to persons hired clandestinely
by the CIA to become trained-in-the-USA terrorists. Most of these
psychopathic thugs were clearly and legally unqualified to be issued
visas. There is every reason to believe the “Visas for Terrorists”
program remains fully operative today. It takes a lot of expendable
terrorists to run a global terrorism op.

Springmann places his experiences both within the context of the
historical roots of the U.S. Empire and within its current ongoing
global destabilization project.
“This tale,” the author states near the beginning, “is a sordid
sketch of backstabbing, disloyalty, double crosses, faithlessness,
falsity, perfidy, sellouts, treachery, and betrayal.”

And that only covers the bureaucratic aspect. Even more sobering is
his sketch of human rights violations: torture, assassinations,
massacres including bombings of markets, invasions and occupations of
countries, destabilization of nations and regions.

Not to mention the flouting of international laws. This dimension
includes gross infringements on national sovereignty, the casual
violation of treaties and ho-hum everyday general lawlessness, risking
even the threat of nuclear annihilation.

All this before taking into account the moral dimension, in which trashing the Ten Commandments is just an opening trifle.

“My story shows how things really work,” Springmann writes,
correctly. In the book’s 250 pages he names names, dates, times and
places – presumably opening himself up to lawsuits, should there be
anything here that the individuals named deem libelous. They might think
twice, however, since Springmann is a lawyer by profession and knows
his way around the Empire’s capital – as well as some of its outlying
ramparts such as Stuttgart, New Delhi and especially Jeddah.

Stinging in itself, Springmann’s book also can be read as an authenticating companion to Michel Chossudovsky’s Towards a World War III Scenario (2012) and The Globalization of War: America’s “Long War” Against Humanity
(2015).

Along the way, both authors deal, to one extent or another,
with the ideological, hubristic and increasingly bellicose role of the
Harper government as handmaiden to the American Empire, including
military involvements in Libya, Serbia and the Ukraine. Springmann
necessarily refers very little to Canada, but to read his account of the
cowardly and unnecessary rain of death inflicted on Libya, for
instance, is to be obliged as a Canadian to think of Harper’s enthusiasm
and pride in having this country share in the slaughter and
destabilization carried out under the Orwellian “responsibility to
protect” notion.

Springmann quotes Maximilian C. Forte who notes that before the
attack Libya enjoyed the highest Human Development Index (a UN
measurement of well-being) in all Africa. “After Western military forces
destroyed the country the Index only records the steep collapse of all
indicators of well-being. More Libyans were killed with intervention
than without. It was about control, about militarizing Africa,” Forte
argues.

What Springmann brings uniquely to the table is his firsthand
knowledge of precisely how the USA recruits terrorists (no quotation
marks needed), sends them to the USA for training and then deploys them
to carry out murders, torture, bombings and more. The bloody mayhem
carried out by these thousands of paid mercenaries – ostensibly
beheading-habituated “jihadists” fighting against democracy, decency and
the USA and its “allies – is planned, organized and funded by none
other than the same USA and its allies. It’s a global false flag
operation – the largest by far in history.

As Springmann on page 65 writes of the “Visas for Terrorists Program:

"This was not an ad hoc operation, conceived and carried
out in response to a specific foreign policy issue. Rather, it was
another of too many CIA efforts to destroy governments, countries, and
politicians disfavored by the American “establishment” in its
“bipartisan” approach to matters abroad.

Whether it was opposing the
imaginary evils of communism, the fictitious malevolence of Islam, or
the invented wickedness of Iran, America and its intelligence services,
brave defenders of “The City Upon A Hill,” sought out and created fear
and loathing of peoples and countries essentially engaged in efforts to
better their lives and improve their political world.

Along the way,
Agency-sponsored murders, war crimes, and human rights violations proved
to be good business. Jobs for the Clandestine Service (people who
recruit and run spies), sales of weapons and aircraft, as well as the
myriad items needed to control banks, countries and peoples all provided
income for and benefits to American companies."

That the American Empire has been able to carry out such a massive
illegal program for so long is the saddest of commentaries on how deep
the rot is, how effective the secrecy, how complicit the media.

As to the span of dangerous widespread deception, Springmann notes that Rahul Bedi wrote in Jane’s Defence Weekly
on September 14, 2001 that beginning in 1980 “thousands [of mujahideen]
were … brought to America and made competent in terrorism by Green
Berets and SEALS at US government East Coast facilities, trained in
guerilla warfare and armed with sophisticated weapons.”

The point is made repeatedly that Al Qaeda and now ISIS/ISIL/the
Islamic State are essentially “Made in USA” entities, brought into being
and organized for the Empire’s purposes. Among the elements that make
possible such a vast fraud are deception, compartmentalization and
secrecy. Springmann quotes attorney Pat Frascogna, “a man with FOIA
expertise,” about secrecy and its purpose:

"Thus whether it be learning the dirty and unethical
business practices of a company or the secrets of our government, the
same deployment of denials and feigning ignorance about what is really
going on are the all-too-common methods used to keep the truth from the
light of day.

Langley recruited the Arab-Afghans so clandestinely that
the terrorists didn’t know they had been recruited. They thought
that they had found a battlefield on their own, or through the
Internet or through Twitter or through television. The Agency didn’t
even bother to tell the non-CIA Americans involved in giving them
US visas about they were doing…

Frascogna’s observation intersects with Springmann’s on-the-job
experiences as a visa officer in Jeddah starting in 1987. Springmann was
repeatedly overruled when he turned down disqualified applicants for
U.S. visas. He writes:

"As I later learned to my dismay, the visa applicants were
recruits for the war in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union’s armed
forces. Further, as time went by, the fighters, trained in the United
States, went on to other battlefields: Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, and
Syria. They worked with the American intelligence services and the State
Department to destabilize governments the United States opposed. While
it’s no secret, most knowledgeable people still refuse to talk about
this agenda."

As Springmann learned, “the average percentage of intelligence
officers to real diplomats at a given Foreign Service post is about one
in three. My experience in Jeddah, Stuttgart, and New Delhi might place
it higher—at least 50 percent, if not more.” According to the Anti-CIA Club of Diplomats: Spooks in U.S. Foreign Service [sic], a twelve-page, 1983 Canadian publication (see namebase.org), the percentage is 60 percent.

“At Jeddah,” Springmann writes, “to the best of my knowledge, out of
some twenty US citizens assigned to the consulate, only three people,
including myself, worked for the Department of State. The rest were CIA
or NSA officials or their spouses.” Elsewhere Springmann suggests that
essentially the CIA runs the State Department, and that this is true of
many other U.S. government departments and agencies as well. It seems
that it’s almost impossible to over-estimate the reach of the CIA’s
tentacles or the overweening treason of its nonstop black ops and
unconstitutional operations domestically.

Springmann toward the end of the book refers to the beginnings of the
CIA. It’s interesting for this reviewer to think that he was 13 years
of age in 1947 when U.S. president Harry Truman agreed with the National
Security Council (NSC) to secretly create the CIA and NSA. I remember
that in my teenage years a few of my peers said there “was something”
called “the CIA.” This was around the time a few people also said there
“was something” called “the Mafia.” The consensus was that both ideas
were very far-fetched.

In 1948 Truman approved yet another NSC initiative, providing for
“propaganda, economic warfare; preventive direct action, including
sabotage, antisabotage, demolition and evacuation measures; subversion against hostile
states, including assistance to underground resistance movements,
guerillas, and refugee liberation groups, and support of indigenous
anti-Communist elements in threatened countries of the free world.”
That’s a tabula rasa if there ever was one: a license for lawlessness.

The CIA’s twisted hits have just kept coming. It’s worth noting that
Truman didn’t singlehandedly initiate this monstrosity. The dark
recesses of the Deep State, as Peter Dale Scott calls it, are where the
demonic entity was spawned. Ever since, Frankenstein’s monster has been a
harmless schoolboy by comparison.

To read of the rape of Libya with active Canadian military complicity
makes for difficult reading. The lies are piled as high as the bodies,
and these two categories are insuperably paired.

Equally sordid, especially in light of Stephen Harper’s enthusiasm
for expanding the war on Russia (the economic sanctions and the
diplomatic exclusion of Russia from the G8 are forms of warfare, not to
mention decades of covert* military incursion by the West onto the
territory of the former USSR and now the Russian Federation, as
described in Visas forAl Qaeda) is to read some of
the history of the Ukraine. “The West’s” meddling in the Ukraine has a
long illicit pedigree. As Springmann writes:

"It seems that the CIA had problems [in the immediate
post World War II period] distinguishing between underground groups and
above-ground armies. Langley used Marshall Plan money to support a
guerrilla force in the Ukraine, called “Nightingale.” Originally
established in 1941 by Nazi Germany’s occupation forces, and working on
their behalf, “Nightingale” and its terrorist arm (made up of
ultranationalist Ukrainians as well as Nazi collaborators) murdered
thousands of Jews, Soviet Union supporters, and Poles."

Even relatively recently, since the so-called Orange revolution in
the Ukraine made events there eminently newsworthy, I can’t remember
seeing in the mainstream media a single substantial article dealing with
the historical relationships between the Ukraine and Russia going back
to World War II, nor such an article laying out the history of the
involvement –overt or covert – of “the West” in the Ukraine.

Instead, we see the surreal ahistorical likes of the top headline in The New York Times International Weekly
for June 13-14, “Russia is Sowing Disunity,” by Peter Baker and Steven
Erlanger. They report breathlessly in the lead paragraph: “Moscow is
leveraging its economic power, financing European political parties and
movements, and spreading alternative accounts of the Ukraine conflict,
according the American and European officials.

True to the narrative of “the West” as a pitiful giant facing a
powerful and expansionist Russia, the writers posit that the “consensus
against Russian aggression” is “fragile.

The drift of this NYT yarn, typical of Western propaganda
across the board, is that there remains in effect a behemoth “Soviet
empire” surreptitiously shipping “Moscow gold” to dupes in “green
movements” and so on. Even a former American national intelligence
officer on Russia, Fiona Hill, now at the Brookings Institution, told
the writers: “The question is how much hard evidence does anyone have?"

Maybe this NYT propaganda, like its clones across the
mainstream media, is not ahistorical after all. The story comes across
rather as an historical relic of the Cold War – found in a time capsule
in a fallout shelter – that the NYT editors decided to publish as a prank. A sausage.

* Military action by “the West” has not always been covert.
Springmann notes that American and Japanese soldiers were dispatched to
Russia in 1917 to squelch the fledgling Russian revolution. The soldiers
were part of what was called the Allied Expeditionary Force. Winston
Churchill for his part said: “We must strangle the Bolshevik baby in its
crib.” Springmann might have noted that Canadian soldiers were part of
the AEF.

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